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Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet: BC’s Japanese Canadian Fishermen
As I was reading this book in the late summer of 2009, I was struck by the sharp difference between the heyday of British Columbia’s fishing industry as portrayed in Spirit of the Nikkei Fleet...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 130-131
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Surveying Central British Columbia: A Photojournal of Frank Swannell, 1920-28
In Surveying Central British Columbia, Jay Sherwood offers us the second instalment of the exploits of provincial surveyor Frank Swannell, who spent nine seasons creating and connecting a survey network in the Upper Nechako country...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 131-132
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I Am Full Moon: Stories of a Ninth Daughter
About a decade ago, I wrote a review article in this journal in which I expressed the hope that more first-hand accounts of growing up Japanese or Chinese in British Columbia would be published [1]....
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 134-135
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Where the Pavement Ends
Marie Wadden is a non-Aboriginal investigative journalist/network producer for CBC Radio who is based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. In 1981, she shared her home with two Innu youth who came to the city from Sheshatshiu,...
BC Studies no. 164 Winter 2009-2010 | Page(s) 135-136
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One Step Over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests
One Step Over the Line is the second published collection of papers drawn from a conference held at the University of Calgary in 2002 (the first, Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History, was...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 127-30
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The Archive of Place: Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau
William Turkel grew up in central British Columbia; studied linguistics and psychology before undertaking doctoral studies in history, anthropology, and the Science, Technology and Society Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and now teaches...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 134-6
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Celebration: Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian Dancing on the Land
Concerned that not all Native Alaskan children had the opportunity to learn their communities’ ancient songs and dances or to participate in traditional ceremony, the fledging Native non-profit Sealaska Heritage Institute decided to hold a...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 137-8
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Reena: A Father’s Story
There will be few people in British Columbia who are unfamiliar with Reena Virk’s name. In Reena: A Father’s Story, Manjit Virk tries to give what, in his view, is a more accurate depiction of...
BC Studies no. 161 Spring 2009 | Page(s) 144-5
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Evergreen Playland: A Road Trip through British Columbia
Evergreen Playland is the dvd version of the movie of the same name that was part of the exhibition “Free Spirits: Stories of You, Me and BC,” held at the Royal British Columbia Museum (RBCM) in...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 203-5
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Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality
Is Cree a sexy language? Do indigenous people have less pubic hair than settler people? How are love, sex, and decolonization intimately related? These questions, and many more, are examined by the wide selection of...
BC Studies no. 162 Summer 2009 | Page(s) 207-8
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The Enemy That Never Was: A History of Japanese Canadians
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 33, Spring 1977
BC Studies no. 33 Spring 1977 | Page(s) 54-7
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People in the Way
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 20, Winter 1973/74
BC Studies no. 20 Winter 1973-1974 | Page(s) 87-91
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The Politics of Racism: The Uprooting of Japanese Canadians During the Second World War
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 53, Spring 1982
BC Studies no. 53 Spring 1982 | Page(s) 66-8
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The Salish People: The Local Contribution of Charles Hill-Tout; Volumes I to IV
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 50, Summer 1981
BC Studies no. 50 Summer 1981 | Page(s) 60-5
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The Japanese Canadians: A Dream of Riches
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 40, Winter 1978
BC Studies no. 40 Winter 1978-1979 | Page(s) 82-4
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Years of Sorrow, Years of Shame: The Story of the Japanese Canadians in World War II
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 37, Spring 1978
BC Studies no. 37 Spring 1978 | Page(s) 67-9
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This Is My Own: Letters to Wes & Other Writings on Japanese Canadians, 1941-48
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 74, Summer 1987
BC Studies no. 74 Summer 1987 | Page(s) 46-9
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The Politics of Canadian- Japanese Economic Relations 1952-1983
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 66, Summer 1985
BC Studies no. 66 Summer 1985 | Page(s) 69-70
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The West Coast (Nootka) People
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 62, Summer 1984
BC Studies no. 62 Summer 1984 | Page(s) 68-71
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Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand: Oral Traditions of the Hul’q’umi’num Coast Salish of Kuper Island and Vancouver Island
Huy tseep q’u, ah siem In a period marred by unemployment and economic hardships, Beryl Mildred Cryer, a Chemainus housewife, mother, and part-time journalist, set out to introduce the world to the oral traditions of...